I own a Prius, and I would have bought one, even if it wasn't a hybrid or "cool". The car is perfect for my needs. It is a 4 door sedan ideal for a 2 child family, and has a generous hatch back storage area, and the back seats fold down. This allows me to transport large items that will not fit into a Civic. The Prius also has a superior hybrid technology compared to the Civic.
There are plenty of bilingual native Japanese speakers here in the US, as well as gaijin like myself who have studied Japanese extensively in college. Given the extreme popularity of anime here in the US, implying we have a lack of Japanese savvy programmers is simply ludicrous.
This cracks me up. Windows NT 3.51 and beyond were considerably better than Mac OS at the time, and there were no problems with memory-management, as was the case with DOS-based OS'es like Windows 95.
I know this because I joined a Mac-friendly company around 1995. They asked me if I wanted a PC or Mac, and I said "Mac of course". 2 years later, everyone had ditched their Macs in favor of NT boxes. There was no comparison, NT kicked ass in terms of speed and reliability. I was one of the last holdouts, but I got weary waiting for the constantly delayed Rhapsody/Copeland/whatever.
The final straw was when I started a code fetch / build before lunch, came back an hour later, and it still wasn't done. The same operation literally only took 10 minutes on my coworkers NT box.
MySpace is amazing, if you are in a band, or interested in non-mainstream music.
It is a quick and easy way to hook into a social network. For consumers of music, it is a great way to find interesting bands and listen to some free streaming music.
I have little care what 14 year olds are doing on MySpace. There are some eye-gougingly bad pages, as well others that are quite cool.
All of the things it does could be done with ordinary web pages, and yet, nothing comparable exists to my knowledge. The power is in the network of friends links.
For me, it was easy to jump in. Even though I am a professional software engineer, I just don't have the time/energy to bother finding a good webhosting service, designing a page, and so on. With MySpace, a few clicks and I have a servicable (albeit generic) page, and I am hooked in.
I don't know about anybody else, but despite what the original article post says, I was pretty glued to my local news channel on 9/11 (here in New York). Is anyone actually going to sit there and tell me in all seriousness that their primary source of news and info on 9/11 was somebody's blog?
Sure, on 9/11, for the first time in years, I was watching TV for hours. But afterwards, I hit the internet, because TV and newspapers were ignoring the wider implications of 9/11 that mattered the most to me.
For example, on 9/11 every politician, Republican and Democrat, seemed to be reading from the same script. "Act of war", "A new Pearl Harbor". This seriously freaked me out. The decision had already been made to go to war before we had any facts. And it was obvious that there would soon be an inevitable crack down on civil liberties (i.e. Patriot Act)
I've stopped directly consuming the mainstream media, because it is so ethically compromised that it is no longer relevant to me. The current indifference of the US media over the Downing Street Memo is case in point.
There is nothing wrong with what you are saying, but the identical problem exists in C. If you free() a pointer twice, you are just as screwed. In C, you have to develop rules to know when a pointer should and should not be free'd.
auto_ptr is no more error prone that conventional memory mamangement; if you have a proper set of coding standards in your organization, then they are fantastic at reducing the complexity of memory management.
In the final analysis, pointers are hard. That is why languages like Java don't have them.
But in a garbage collected language, you don't have to worry about this sort of cleanup except in very rare cases, and it all works very nicely. Anything b allocates will be orphaned and just vanish, magically.
This is true. However, the lack of destructors in a language such as Java means that you have to make sure to put in a lot of try..finally statements to insure that files get closed properly, cursor states get reset properly, and so on. These things can easily be done in C++ using objects on the stack. Maybe C# and D this handle better somehow, I don't know.
To program effectively in both C and C++, you have to develop consistent rules, to keep you r code manageable. One such rule is, always pass smart pointers by reference; this avoids the unnecessary construction and destruction of a temporary. Of course, I almost never write functions that accept auto_ptrs as parameters. Conceptually, you don't to pass an auto_ptr to a function like you are doing.
The purpose of the auto_ptr is to provide temporary ownership of an allocated object. I would have coded your example like this:
C++ attempts to get around this by calling the destructors of any auto variables on the stack as it works its way up the return path. This works great, except when dealing with pointers, which still need to be done manually. It may be possible to do something scary with smart pointers and templates, but that is, as I said, scary.
There is nothing scary about auto_ptr. If you think this is scary, then you should be working in a different language than C++.
The issue is not whether Indian programmers can innovate (obviously they can, many US startups are run by Indians).
The issue is that if US companies develop their innovative software overseas, then the Indian companies are doing the innovating, not US companies. Said US company has no competitive advantage, because other companies can just hire the same Indian programmers. In fact, a US company that outsources, is paying Indians to learn new technologies, rather than keeping the IP in house.
Well, the "size of the slice" would relate to the sampling rate, not the bits per sample.
Digital is good for some things, analog better for others. However, thanks to Moore's Law, digital will eventually surpass analog. It is enevitable.
Digital will also allow creation of sounds totally impossible with analog technology. We are already there in fact, although I'm still obsessed with old school analog synthesis and effects.
Read the book "Tolkien, Author of the Century", to get an idea of what really inspired Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was not inspired directly by the Arthur stores, which are mainly French influenced. Tolkien mainly worked from Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources, including Beowulf and Gawain, as you mentioned.
The Port Chicago disaster is well-known. Some people make a big deal out of it for racial reasons (most of the people killed were black). But a nuclear explosion? No way.
Uh, no. People made "a big deal out of it" because: black soldiers, many of whom were qualified for technical jobs, were being forced to work as menial laborors, in extremely dangerous conditions. The white overseers had competitions amongst themselves, to see who get their black boys to load ships with explosives the fastest. Then, when the completely avoidable disaster did happen, the black soldiers refused to continue loading ships until safety was improved; they were all court-marshalled, and the entire event was covered up for decades. No one really talks about it, even today.
Your solution is to raise property taxes in an area where real estate is already prohibitively expensive? Discouraging people from buying isn't a good idea...
If you actually understood california tax codes, you would realize that "prop 13" grandfathers tax rates for people who hold their property for a long time. If you purchase a new home, you are taxed at the current rate.
My parents bought a house in the '70s, which is now worth about a million, but they are taxed on the valuation when they purchased, which is about $100,000.
This disasterous "consumer tax revolt" undermined the ability of local governments to raise funds. Something the politicians did not tell us at the time: the tax loophole also applies to corporations. Corps that hold their real estate (i.e. most of them) get enormous tax breaks.
First off, if you are serious about developing for J2ME, you should get the Sun WTK (which is free), or perhaps the JBuilder personal edition + MobileSet (also free).
Creating JARs and JADs by hand is a pain in the ass. One should build with ant, and use a JAR creation task such as JADCreator or the tool from Stampy soft (whose name escapes me at the moment). JBuilder Professional will also build JARs for you.
Moving on to the T720; it has problems. Networking is seriously screwed, and there are reports among developers of bugs such as: your JAR not working if the size is an even multiple of 100 bytes. While it is cool that you can do OTA downloading, the real deal is to load apps via the serial cable using Midway. Unfortunatly, the only way to do this is to be a developer, and convince Motorola to flash your phone with the correct ROM version. It also blows that you cannot view output from the phone via the serial cable using Hyperterminal; the i95CL does allow this, which is vital for debugging on the actual device.
Lastly, the Brew issue: development companies love the very things the author despises (well, not the $1500 for the dev kit). If you are shipping product on J2ME, and actually plan on making money, you have to deal with the complete lack of adequate billing solutions (and each carrier does things differently, and has a volumnious documentation describing what you need to do to work with them). Brew takes care of this for you, which is a big plus.
The problem is that tidal power will slow the rotation of the earth. In a few million years this could seriously disrupt the diurnal cycle of the planet.
Unless things have changed a lot in 18 years... They do not do psychological testing on recruits. The exams we were subjected to (Air Force) were aptitude tests and medical examinations. And then there were the drug tests, and the interviews where they ask you things like "Have you ever committed any crimes?", "Used drugs?", etc. I was clean on those, but the recruiter would have coached me on how to get by (if the military really refused enlistment to former "drug users", then almost nobody could get in...)
I know you feel the need to demonstrate how positively furious you are at this ruling, and even now, are contemplating constutional amendments. Perhaps your legislative energies can be better spent dealing with more pressing matters, to wit: Al-Qaeda, executive branch attacks on the rights of American citizens, our spiraling budget deficit, and the middle east crisis. Thank you.
Due to sound card incompatabilities, it was impossible for me to even understand what the rocket ship puzzle was supposed to be about. I forget how I worked around it, but I remember being quite pissed off at the time...
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I own a Prius, and I would have bought one, even if it wasn't a hybrid or "cool". The car is perfect for my needs. It is a 4 door sedan ideal for a 2 child family, and has a generous hatch back storage area, and the back seats fold down. This allows me to transport large items that will not fit into a Civic. The Prius also has a superior hybrid technology compared to the Civic.
There are plenty of bilingual native Japanese speakers here in the US, as well as gaijin like myself who have studied Japanese extensively in college. Given the extreme popularity of anime here in the US, implying we have a lack of Japanese savvy programmers is simply ludicrous.
Am I the only one reminded of Highlander 2?
This cracks me up. Windows NT 3.51 and beyond were considerably better than Mac OS at the time, and there were no problems with memory-management, as was the case with DOS-based OS'es like Windows 95.
I know this because I joined a Mac-friendly company around 1995. They asked me if I wanted a PC or Mac, and I said "Mac of course". 2 years later, everyone had ditched their Macs in favor of NT boxes. There was no comparison, NT kicked ass in terms of speed and reliability. I was one of the last holdouts, but I got weary waiting for the constantly delayed Rhapsody/Copeland/whatever.
The final straw was when I started a code fetch / build before lunch, came back an hour later, and it still wasn't done. The same operation literally only took 10 minutes on my coworkers NT box.
MySpace is amazing, if you are in a band, or interested in non-mainstream music.
It is a quick and easy way to hook into a social network. For consumers of music, it is a great way to find interesting bands and listen to some free streaming music.
I have little care what 14 year olds are doing on MySpace. There are some eye-gougingly bad pages, as well others that are quite cool.
All of the things it does could be done with ordinary web pages, and yet, nothing comparable exists to my knowledge. The power is in the network of friends links.
For me, it was easy to jump in. Even though I am a professional software engineer, I just don't have the time/energy to bother finding a good webhosting service, designing a page, and so on. With MySpace, a few clicks and I have a servicable (albeit generic) page, and I am hooked in.
I don't know about anybody else, but despite what the original article post says, I was pretty glued to my local news channel on 9/11 (here in New York). Is anyone actually going to sit there and tell me in all seriousness that their primary source of news and info on 9/11 was somebody's blog?
Sure, on 9/11, for the first time in years, I was watching TV for hours. But afterwards, I hit the internet, because TV and newspapers were ignoring the wider implications of 9/11 that mattered the most to me.
For example, on 9/11 every politician, Republican and Democrat, seemed to be reading from the same script. "Act of war", "A new Pearl Harbor". This seriously freaked me out. The decision had already been made to go to war before we had any facts. And it was obvious that there would soon be an inevitable crack down on civil liberties (i.e. Patriot Act)
I've stopped directly consuming the mainstream media, because it is so ethically compromised that it is no longer relevant to me. The current indifference of the US media over the Downing Street Memo is case in point.
There is nothing wrong with what you are saying, but the identical problem exists in C. If you free() a pointer twice, you are just as screwed. In C, you have to develop rules to know when a pointer should and should not be free'd.
auto_ptr is no more error prone that conventional memory mamangement; if you have a proper set of coding standards in your organization, then they are fantastic at reducing the complexity of memory management.
In the final analysis, pointers are hard. That is why languages like Java don't have them.
But in a garbage collected language, you don't have to worry about this sort of cleanup except in very rare cases, and it all works very nicely. Anything b allocates will be orphaned and just vanish, magically.
This is true. However, the lack of destructors in a language such as Java means that you have to make sure to put in a lot of try..finally statements to insure that files get closed properly, cursor states get reset properly, and so on. These things can easily be done in C++ using objects on the stack. Maybe C# and D this handle better somehow, I don't know.
The purpose of the auto_ptr is to provide temporary ownership of an allocated object. I would have coded your example like this:
There is nothing scary about auto_ptr. If you think this is scary, then you should be working in a different language than C++.
See? that wasn't so bad...
The issue is not whether Indian programmers can innovate (obviously they can, many US startups are run by Indians).
The issue is that if US companies develop their innovative software overseas, then the Indian companies are doing the innovating, not US companies. Said US company has no competitive advantage, because other companies can just hire the same Indian programmers. In fact, a US company that outsources, is paying Indians to learn new technologies, rather than keeping the IP in house.
Word will now allow anyone to create XML Schemas and "Solutions" (groups of schemae)...
Just thought you would like to know, the plural of schema is schemata.
Mr. Language Person
Get a Teese RMC3. All the wah action you could want. Yeah, it ain't cheap, but it is out there if you really want it...
Well, the "size of the slice" would relate to the sampling rate, not the bits per sample.
Digital is good for some things, analog better for others. However, thanks to Moore's Law, digital will eventually surpass analog. It is enevitable.
Digital will also allow creation of sounds totally impossible with analog technology. We are already there in fact, although I'm still obsessed with old school analog synthesis and effects.
Read the book "Tolkien, Author of the Century", to get an idea of what really inspired Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was not inspired directly by the Arthur stores, which are mainly French influenced. Tolkien mainly worked from Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources, including Beowulf and Gawain, as you mentioned.
The Port Chicago disaster is well-known. Some people make a big deal out of it for racial reasons (most of the people killed were black). But a nuclear explosion? No way.
Uh, no. People made "a big deal out of it" because: black soldiers, many of whom were qualified for technical jobs, were being forced to work as menial laborors, in extremely dangerous conditions. The white overseers had competitions amongst themselves, to see who get their black boys to load ships with explosives the fastest. Then, when the completely avoidable disaster did happen, the black soldiers refused to continue loading ships until safety was improved; they were all court-marshalled, and the entire event was covered up for decades. No one really talks about it, even today.
Your solution is to raise property taxes in an area where real estate is already prohibitively expensive? Discouraging people from buying isn't a good idea...
If you actually understood california tax codes, you would realize that "prop 13" grandfathers tax rates for people who hold their property for a long time. If you purchase a new home, you are taxed at the current rate.
My parents bought a house in the '70s, which is now worth about a million, but they are taxed on the valuation when they purchased, which is about $100,000.
This disasterous "consumer tax revolt" undermined the ability of local governments to raise funds. Something the politicians did not tell us at the time: the tax loophole also applies to corporations. Corps that hold their real estate (i.e. most of them) get enormous tax breaks.
First off, if you are serious about developing for J2ME, you should get the Sun WTK (which is free), or perhaps the JBuilder personal edition + MobileSet (also free).
Creating JARs and JADs by hand is a pain in the ass. One should build with ant, and use a JAR creation task such as JADCreator or the tool from Stampy soft (whose name escapes me at the moment). JBuilder Professional will also build JARs for you.
Moving on to the T720; it has problems. Networking is seriously screwed, and there are reports among developers of bugs such as: your JAR not working if the size is an even multiple of 100 bytes. While it is cool that you can do OTA downloading, the real deal is to load apps via the serial cable using Midway. Unfortunatly, the only way to do this is to be a developer, and convince Motorola to flash your phone with the correct ROM version. It also blows that you cannot view output from the phone via the serial cable using Hyperterminal; the i95CL does allow this, which is vital for debugging on the actual device.
Lastly, the Brew issue: development companies love the very things the author despises (well, not the $1500 for the dev kit). If you are shipping product on J2ME, and actually plan on making money, you have to deal with the complete lack of adequate billing solutions (and each carrier does things differently, and has a volumnious documentation describing what you need to do to work with them). Brew takes care of this for you, which is a big plus.
The problem is that tidal power will slow the rotation of the earth. In a few million years this could seriously disrupt the diurnal cycle of the planet.
Unless things have changed a lot in 18 years... They do not do psychological testing on recruits. The exams we were subjected to (Air Force) were aptitude tests and medical examinations. And then there were the drug tests, and the interviews where they ask you things like "Have you ever committed any crimes?", "Used drugs?", etc. I was clean on those, but the recruiter would have coached me on how to get by (if the military really refused enlistment to former "drug users", then almost nobody could get in...)
Err... This is an astonishing white wash. Walter Carlos had a sex change operation in the 1960s, then he became a she.
Just write an EMACS extension...
I know you feel the need to demonstrate how positively furious you are at this ruling, and even now, are contemplating constutional amendments. Perhaps your legislative energies can be better spent dealing with more pressing matters, to wit: Al-Qaeda, executive branch attacks on the rights of American citizens, our spiraling budget deficit, and the middle east crisis. Thank you.
Concerned Citizen
Great. Founded by the game designer and the customer service czar from Verant. Given their track record on EQ, I'm not holding my breath here...
Due to sound card incompatabilities, it was impossible for me to even understand what the rocket ship puzzle was supposed to be about. I forget how I worked around it, but I remember being quite pissed off at the time...